[ExchangeList] SMTP Load Balancer

Kinda off topic? But I have to ask:

 

Scenario:

 

Multiple Firewalls (5) on the perimeter

Single Large pipe to the INET

 

We need to load balance SMTP traffic to the Perimeter firewalls (SMTP is
the only concern), if firewall 1 is saturated then go to firewall 2 and
so on. 

 

My question is, since I have little experience with load balancers,
anyone have a short list of vendors that they have had good luck with
that provides this type of load balancing? I would imagine this scenario
would be pretty simple. F5 BIG-IP for instance? Or is that over kill?
Just looking to narrow down a search without having to "Drink the
Kool-aid" from vendor contacts...... 

 

Mike French

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